greyback
English Thesaurus
1. a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | sandpiper, |
| definition | : | any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers (noun.animal) |
2. a dowitcher with a grey back (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | dowitcher, |
| definition | : | shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe (noun.animal) |
3. `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | confederate soldier, |
| definition | : | a soldier in the Army of the Confederacy during the American Civil War (noun.person) |
| domain usage | : | colloquialism, |
| definition | : | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech (noun.communication) |
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